Writer/director Jorg Buttgereit has made a career of
infamous and controversial horror films, so it is with great “pleasure” that I
mention that I’ve finally decided to watch one of them starting with one of his
most famous which is Nekromantic (1987), a hard to define erotic necrophilia
filled psychology gore fest. You are
more than excused if this type of film is not something you’d be interested in
nor was I at first but since it defies explanation and is on most hard-core
horror fans must see list. This being
said, since I study horror films from all genres and all types I was bound to
get around to this one.
In this film Rob (Daktari Lorenz) is a street sweeper who
cleans up the roads after accidents most involving the grisly demise of
someone. He has a strange fetish in
which he brings “spare” body parts home to his equally disturbed girlfriend
Betty (Beatrice Manowski) but when he brings home the entire corpse of someone
their relationship takes on a whole new level as the corpse becomes the third
leg of their threesome. At first this
brings the two closer together but when Betty begins to grow closer to the
corpse this threatens everything that Rob has put together. When Betty decides that she no longer wants
to share the corpse, Rob starts to descend into a darkness that he may not
return from.
Buttgereit’s film is filled with disturbing images that will
sit with you long after the film is over.
It is not an easy film to digest similar to that on the infamous Cannibal
Holocaust (1980), which is also an acquired taste. This is not to say that it doesn’t have its
points of interest. The black and white
cinematography is quite good and it has that grunge look like Tetsuo: The Iron
Man (1989). This being said, I still can’t
recommend this film to the “normal” horror fan but just those interested in
investing in a film that borders on pornographic-gore-horror but those brave
enough to take the plunge will come away a different person.
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